An exciting 12 month maternity leave role in driving the identification, hiring and onboarding experience of future General Manager’s within IHG’s Luxury & Lifestyle portfolio in order to fuel the organisation's growth within this key business area.

Your day to day

Driving the execution of identifying future General Managers for IHG’s Luxury and Lifestyle brands, to support the future growth strategy of the organisation.
Securing positive conversations with passive and non-active candidates, actively networking with GMs within their own networks or using the connections of others within the L&L category to generate engaged and appropriate candidates for specific vacancies or for future talent opportunities.
Ensuring that all pipelining and sourcing methodologies are underpinned with driving diversity of hiring practices and outcomes.
You will contribute to driving and delivery a robust recruitment process, that drives pace and quality which in turn supports superior candidate and Hiring Leader experience throughout the end-to-end recruitment process for all
Ensuring that GM’s are successfully matched to IHG’s Luxury & Lifestyle “Success Profiles” with a sounds understanding of the different brand standards, culture, and hallmarks to drive the right outcomes.
Collating candidate feedback, aligned to the “Guest Obsessed”, “Performance Builders”, “Commercial Entrepreneurs” and “Powerful Connectors” success criteria, enabling motivational and constructive feedback for candidates and curated profiles for further assessments.
Develop and nurture key relationships with core key stakeholders within L&L, through an in-depth understanding of the market for GM talent, with supported thought leadership, market analytics and delivery of exceptional GM talent.
Gathering candidate market insight, sharing data on General Managers reward, policies and working practices to enable the TA team to remain competitive and attractive within the marketplace.
Collaborate with the broader TA Operations team around General Manager hiring best practices, methodologies, and tools to drive shared success globally.
Partner with TA CoE teams around attraction, employer brand and global TA programmes

What we need from you

Solid TA experience from either in-house, agency or ideally a search practice
Proven experience of using multiple sourcing strategies, methodologies, and platforms with strong outcome-based results
The ability to pipeline for current and active requirements alongside future needs also
The ability to drive continual engagement with future talent through various mediums and methods
Ideally, awareness and interest in the Luxury and Lifestyle brands or comparable brands within the Hospitality sector
Established candidate and hiring leader experience practices that are well honed and create value and impact
In depth knowledge of talent acquisition principles, systems, and processes
Extensive networks and contacts, ideally in the hotel industry
Inclusive and unbiased recruitment skills, use of strategies and tools that enable diverse hiring
The ability to drive diverse sourcing and pipelining practices that generate net results well
Effective consulting, presentation, influencing and inter-personal skills
Ability to navigate and utilise various sourcing channels and platforms
Delivery of assessments tools and practices

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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